Sea ice thickness measurement and its underside morphology analysis using radar penetration in the Arctic Ocean

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1151-1160

  Sun, Bo ^a,b   Wen, Jiahong ^a   He, Maobing ^a   Kang, Jiancheng ^a   Luo, Yuzhong ^a   Li, Yuansheng ^a  

^a POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Radar penetration; Sea ice thickness; Sea ice type; Underside morphology

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

RADAR PENETRATING; RADAR WAVES;

SEA ICE;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; RADAR; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 2342422530     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/02yd0033     Document Type: Article

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